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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
20th National Artificial Intelligence Conference:
Leading conference for AI researchers, technologists, analysts and journalists
July 9-13, 2005
Westin Convention Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MENLO PARK, Calif. – June 7, 2005. Many of the leading scientific, business and
government forces in artificial intelligence will be attending this summer’s 20th National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05) and the co-located 17th Innovative
Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-05).
Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, this is the
leading AI conference to learn about the latest emerging trends in AI science and
technology.
Visit aaai.org/Conferences/conferences for conference information, or call
AAAI at 650-328-3123.
Blue Ribbon Speakers
The range of speakers and presentations is as diverse as the field of AI itself. The
keynote speaker is Marvin Minsky (http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ ), cofounder of
the MIT AI Laboratory and one of the founding fathers of AI. The Presidential address
will be given by AAAI President, Ron Brachman (http://www.brachman.org/), a highly
respected AI researcher who is currently working with the Corporation for National
Research Initiatives as a Special Assistant to the President. Other speakers include the
world-renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary Jay M (“Marty”)
(more)
Tenenbaum (http://www.commerce.net/about/board.asp); PalmPilot architect and
Executive Director of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute Jeff Hawkins
(http://www.rni.org/directors.html#jeff-hawkins); James A. Hendler, the highlyregarded AI researcher and a pioneer in the development of the Semantic Web
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/); Martin Keane, co-author of Genetic Programming
III with John Koza; Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology, Chitta Baral,
Arizona State University, Amy Greenwald, Brown University, Marti Hearst, University
of California, Berkeley, Sridhar Mahadevan, University of Massachusetts, and Dana
Nau, University of Maryland.
Various conference components
This year’s conference offers a wealth of content, reflecting the panoply of research and
applications at the cutting edge of AI. The Fourteenth Annual Mobile Robot
Competition and Exhibition will bring together teams from universities, colleges and
research laboratories to compete and demonstrate state-of-the-art research in robotics
and AI. The Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Conference (IAAI-05) continues a long, highly-regarded tradition of presenting
outstanding new and emerging uses of AI technology to solve critical problems in
industry, science and government.
The technical papers for the Technical Program will cover a broad array of
groundbreaking research topics. Giving researchers an opportunity to show their
research in action, the AAAI Intelligent Systems Demonstrations will be held again
this year. The more intense, focused Tutorial Forum offers top level researchers an
opportunity to explore advances in disciplines outside their normal focus. These
tutorials are led by some of the most highly regarded AI researchers.
The First Annual General Games Playing Competition will test the abilities
of general game playing computer systems (as compared to programs that are designed
to play one particular game, like chess) by comparing their performance on a variety of
games.
A special track with summaries and highlights from 14 other specialized
conferences in AI will also be presented.
About AAAI
Founded in 1979, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org)
is a nonprofit scientific membership society devoted to advancing the science and
practice of AI. Its mission is to: (1) advance the scientific understanding of the
mechanisms underlying intelligent thought and behavior, (2) facilitate their embodiment
in machines, (3) serve as an information resource for research planners and the general
public concerning trends in AI, and (4) offer training for the current and coming
generations of AI researchers and practitioners. The Association has sponsored an
annual conference, regarded as the premier gathering in the field, since 1980.
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